http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2006/10/08/spam-to-get-worse-before-january-then-the-zombies-die/ My Experiences with Software Development Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:33:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2006/10/08/spam-to-get-worse-before-january-then-the-zombies-die/comment-page-1/#comment-15009 Brennan’s Blog » Blog Archive » Attacked by Spam! Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:51:54 +0000 http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2006/10/08/spam-to-get-worse-before-january-then-the-zombies-die/#comment-15009 [...] It seems spam is getting worse. Perhaps the spammers really are getting more and more desperate now that their window of opportunity is closing. After all, Vista will soon be out for the general public and more and more people are choosing Macs. I have a copy of Vista installed into a Virtual PC and the Least Privilege User Mode did not really get in my way too much so I may not disable it as some may do. If most people keep it in place it will definitely help stop those sneaky exploits which turn broadband connected Windows computers into spam sending zombies. Add these contributing factors together and you can almost see a future without malware. But before that happens, we still need to change the way email works. [...] [...] It seems spam is getting worse. Perhaps the spammers really are getting more and more desperate now that their window of opportunity is closing. After all, Vista will soon be out for the general public and more and more people are choosing Macs. I have a copy of Vista installed into a Virtual PC and the Least Privilege User Mode did not really get in my way too much so I may not disable it as some may do. If most people keep it in place it will definitely help stop those sneaky exploits which turn broadband connected Windows computers into spam sending zombies. Add these contributing factors together and you can almost see a future without malware. But before that happens, we still need to change the way email works. [...]

]]> http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2006/10/08/spam-to-get-worse-before-january-then-the-zombies-die/comment-page-1/#comment-15010 Brennan’s Blog » Blog Archive » Attacked by Spam! Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:51:54 +0000 http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2006/10/08/spam-to-get-worse-before-january-then-the-zombies-die/#comment-15010 [...] It seems spam is getting worse. Perhaps the spammers really are getting more and more desperate now that their window of opportunity is closing. After all, Vista will soon be out for the general public and more and more people are choosing Macs. I have a copy of Vista installed into a Virtual PC and the Least Privilege User Mode did not really get in my way too much so I may not disable it as some may do. If most people keep it in place it will definitely help stop those sneaky exploits which turn broadband connected Windows computers into spam sending zombies. Add these contributing factors together and you can almost see a future without malware. But before that happens, we still need to change the way email works. [...] [...] It seems spam is getting worse. Perhaps the spammers really are getting more and more desperate now that their window of opportunity is closing. After all, Vista will soon be out for the general public and more and more people are choosing Macs. I have a copy of Vista installed into a Virtual PC and the Least Privilege User Mode did not really get in my way too much so I may not disable it as some may do. If most people keep it in place it will definitely help stop those sneaky exploits which turn broadband connected Windows computers into spam sending zombies. Add these contributing factors together and you can almost see a future without malware. But before that happens, we still need to change the way email works. [...]

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